The tiny Austin Roberts Memorial Bird Sanctuary is one of the city of Pretoria’s gems, and the reserve’s flock of Grey Crowned Cranes (known as “mahem” in Afrikaans) must be among the most photographed of their species.
Our end-of-year 2015 holidays were absolutely packed to the brim. Apart from our ten-day visit to the Kruger National Park (read more about our time at Lower Sabie, Olifants and Shingwedzi in December), we also made day trips to five other reserves, and will be sharing photos from those (except Suikerbosrand, which we introduced in a post all of its own) daily through the month of February, in a series we call “a month of monochrome memories”.
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Hulle is almal pragtig!! Ek sien uit na die res van die maand! 😉
Baie dankie AJ!
Lovely! I look forward to seeing more!
Thanks Meg!
Wow! What an impressive bird. The photo is excellent. I love it black and white, and at the same time I’m wondering what colors does it have.
Kind greetings,
Marianne
They are magnificent Marianne – we’ll soon do a post about them in full colour 😉
What an elegant bird, and so nicely photographed!
Thank you very much Montucky!
Stunning!!!
Baie dankie Aletta!
Reminded me of a lovely character in an old movie!
For sure, such grace and poise belong in an old black-and-white musical!
Dis darem maar n pronk voël. Die swart en wit is baie mooi.
Statig verby, die woeste kroon ten spyt!
Hul is beslis besondere voëls, lyk altyd asof geen veer uit hul plek is nie.
So gorgeous in B&W, Dries. 🙂
Thank you Sylvia!
3 am and you’re awake? 😕
Early to rise, and all that 😉
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Your getting up so early reminded me of this Monty Python skit which I adore. Hope you can understand the Yorkshire accent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
Loved it, thanks Sylvia!
Thank goodness I don’t have any such hardship as staying in a lake or septic tank to blame for getting up so early! It’s a nasty habit I learned in school – I’d get up early to study refreshed, instead of staying up late and trying to do it while I was already tired – and it served me so well that I’m still doing it…
Whatever works for you. 😀
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Wow, it sounds as if you’ve had some adventures. I look forward to seeing it. Monochrome was a nice choice for this image. Cheers!
Thank you Chris!